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When the Xray/Durango is a bit too serious...

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I try to race at one of the local clubs at least once a week, we don't have a club in the town where I live, but there are three or four within 30 miles radius. There's a bunch of four or five of us that usually descend on the chosen club of the evening, and we try not to cause too much trouble. 

 

However sometimes its just just much more fun to take something to race that's a little bit less serious than the latest 1/10 competition touring car, so we've started racing our older cars. It came about as we were reminiscing about the old cars that were still hanging around in the lofts and sheds. My first proper car was a TA01 tiger strip Escort Cosworth, and I still have it, sort of. It's a bit like triggers broom and only a handful of parts are original. It's still great fun to drive tho, and very forgiving. 

 

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Thats mine on the left wearing the Cavalier body, and my mates TA02 wearing a Carson Astra body. They looks really good as they tussle, pitching violently into each corner. They are nowhere near as composed as a modern chassis, but much more forgiving. We are using old 27t stock motors as the track is quite small and has a ban on brushless to keep the speeds down. This isn't a bad thing per se, as it means the cars are having a relatively gentle time. 

 

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More recently, I tried one of my FF01s there, it was great but the old plastic seems to be very brittle and I broke the front gearbox. It was good while I lasted tho.  

 

Ill get more pics when we try to take things less seriously. But we still end up having good racing. 

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A FWD older super touring class would be ace at local clubs, but everyone just wants to race boring 4WD carbon chassis' these days, which is a great pity IMO.

James

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I agree. I've just bought a shelf queen ff03 from eBay, and will race it at some point next week. I hope the original owner gets to see his/her car being used. 

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We talked a lot at my local club about starting a vintage touring class, rules being both the chassis and the body must be vintage and the paint scheme mustn't be the modern tribal flame type, but either a repro of a classic touring livery or a custom livery to fit the age of the shell.

I haven't been able to race for ages due to family commitments but I'd love to resurrect that idea.  It might get me back into racing again.

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How does banning brushless keep the speeds down? I mean, I can slap in a hot 12x2 motor in my TRF and absolutely decimate anything with a 17.5t or 21.5t brushless motor.

With that said; I'm all about starting vintage and period-correct classes. Something like an European VTA. (Vintage Trans-Am). We should call it something like VBTCC. :D

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Around here they have a class called USGT. Really, the only rules are spec treaded tires, I believe a 4 door sedan body, a 21.5T motor, I suppose a 540 silver can would work too, and it has to be on an older chassis. This seems to be the most popular class out there.

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My local club have a stock class that use a controlled tyre, 1060 escs and a 20t sealed saturn motor, that gets more drivers than the touring car class, nice close racing and its cheap too, my last set of tyres lasted 10 meetings and they are super cheap. 

 

I love the old tamiya bodies, the old cavalier, the laguna and the 405 are amongst my favourites of the old touring cars

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There's a 20t Saturn/HW1060 rule at this particular club too. We've been accused of cheating in the past, even when we've been using this specified kit, just driving tidy makes the cars appear so much faster. Half the fun is beating the modern cars with these old things v

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Last night, I tried the ff03 in anger. 

 

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Theres a sport tuned motor fitted in the pic, and this was punchy enough to show the diff up as the weak link in this model. It's not a particularly friendly car to work on, but I managed to strip, clean and re glue the plates onto the outdrives in the 10-12 min gap between rounds. I'm considering getting the replacement gear cases that allow you to fit an xv01 diff, that should prove much more reliable. 

 

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Soft roll bar fitted to the rear, stops the rear end suddenly unloading mid corner. 

 

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And here you can clearly see the 'irace' lap counting transmitter as supplied by kamtec. They work really well, and are so much cheaper than the mylaps/amb system. 

 

The tyres are 28 sweeps, and worked perfectly even in the fresh temperature of the hall. 

 

Good fun. 

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On 11/25/2016 at 4:32 AM, Mad Ax said:

We talked a lot at my local club about starting a vintage touring class, rules being both the chassis and the body must be vintage and the paint scheme mustn't be the modern tribal flame type, but either a repro of a classic touring livery or a custom livery to fit the age of the shell.

I haven't been able to race for ages due to family commitments but I'd love to resurrect that idea.  It might get me back into racing again.

This is what USGT was and VTA is.   USGT was 10th scale pan car with a GT non-prototype body (mostly Lexus LFA, 911 GT1, faux-Aston, faux-Alfa).  And VTA is vintage touring car, but it has to be a 'pony car' body shell.  As in late 60's early 70s muscle car.   I just ran my Pantera anyway because it's a mid-engine chassis (very used and very cheap X-Ray T1... with transponder!)

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